The folk-seasoned fourth album Under Branch & Thorn & Tree was the critically acclaimed follow-up to 2014's Kid Face, a record that saw rising Oklahoma songwriter Samantha Crain fuse country with folk to fashion a newfound voice. Part protest, part insurrection, her sound had evolved onto another plain. "Outside the Pale" may have won her a raft of new fans, but there's enough feeling and fervour in the thudding folk-tinged songs of bliss and sorrow to put this bright light on everyone's radar.